Portia De Rossi Recorded Fights With Ellen

A new report from In Touch claims that Portia De Rossi managed to secretly record fights she had with Ellen while both were drunk. Apparently Portia was planning on using them to show the world that Ellen is not the sweet person she pretends to be for the public and that it would expose Ellen for who she really is. At some point Ellen became aware of the existence of the recordings and searched through Portia's e-mail and phone to make sure she had not sent the videos to anyone. It was shortly after Ellen learned of the recordings that Portia checked herself into rehab. Can you imagine if recordings like this did show up in public? Think about what happened to Mel Gibson's career? Ellen would turn off all of her fans. They would be some of the most watched videos ever.

Hmmm. You mean gay couples have issues just like straight couples? No way!

Until I hear them, I won't judge who is the nastier person. Portia for secretly recording, or Ellen for what she was saying to Portia. Theoretically, there could be verbal/emotional abuse spewing from Ellen that Portia wanted preserved???

No lie, Violet. It would be one thing if she were violent, then it's for protection, but to…You know what? We don't know how much power Ellen wields within the Hollywood gay/downlow community. Those videos may be just as much for her protection as If Ellen were violent.Being Blackballed and frozen out in Hollywood and prevented from ever working again is deadly stuff.

To be very fair most human beings are not who were are in public. We all learn this game. You are not exactly the same person with your boss or even your family as you are with your spouse or your best friends.

Like the prim person at work, you get to know them esp apply alcohol and realize wow they have a wicked sense of humour and they are fun but even then you still don't reveal all your cards to people at work – because like Portia, there are always people who will exploit it if you are too open with the wrong people.

Many of us might not pass scrutiny if some opportunistic spouse decided to record us on a bad day. Almost all of us have meltdowns at least once in a while esp when some people provoke them.

So as I read it – Portia recorded something but didn't release it publicly (or at all, by the sounds of it). Ellen listened and pried, to ensure it hasn't been sent anywhere. And Portia sent herself into rehab (and God knows what people send themselves to rehab for these days – Isiah Washington, anyone? ).

Sounds like Portia's sad and wants space, Ellen's freaked about her career and also her private life, possibly, and nothing at all is in the public realm except this.

I've always like both of them & both of them together. Hope they can find happiness whether it's together of apart but do so without destroying each other. If not, I could see this becoming a real life lesbian version of War of the Roses.

Happy Birthday VIP!! Can't imagine it would be easy for Ellen working like she does and dealing with an addict. I doubt the recordings are anything to be ashamed of like Mel. Hope portia cleans herself up. And moves on if she's unhappy with Ellen.

I don't know. It sounds like an addict trying to hold the reigns over her significant other. Manipulative BS from an addict in my humble opinion, if this is in fact true. Even if Ellen is a bitch, so what. Does anyone really think that she is a just a ball of sunshine like she is on TV?

Agree with trudi. Plus ellen is the same as she always was. Portia was anerxic and drank. She already has issues. Im not saying ellen is an angel, but if i had to speculate, i wld think portia's issues are the problem. And as truds said, if so egregious, leave.

I shudder to think of anyone having recorded the fights my husband and I had when we were drinking. Not vicious, but just stooooopid. I'm a nice person, and he's far nicer than I am, but we both would have come off like complete assholes.

Now we're both sober 18 months. He was an alcoholic, I wasn't, but I quit to support him and am so happy about it. Sober is just way way better, don't miss it in the slightest. Even if you're not an addict, alcohol can make you sound and act pretty badly.

Maybe they should both quit alcohol and forget being vegans and replace it with ice cream (that's what we did )

Yup. Word rajah! In my experience, they start recording either because they are too hopped up and paranoid on uppers, often think that people are out to get them. They like "documenting" everything.

In a few other cases, I've seen severe pill poppers record things because they cannot remember things. When someone is abusing uppers, there is a huge likelihood that they are also abusing downers because they couldn't sleep otherwise due to the stimulants. Xanax and klonopins go hand in hand with Adderall abuse, which leads people to be in this fucked up blacked out but twacked out state. So sad and scary.

I think that Ellen and Portia are both probably decent people, like most of us, and they're human with big flaws and little flaws, like most of us. Actually, I LIKE to think that about 80-90% of celebs are like that, you know? Anyway, that's just my gut feeling about those two, and I like seeing them together. I'll hope for the best for them and take this with a grain of salt. We shall see, right?

Dumb question: how do we actually know that VIP is ALM? Have we just assumed that, or did she admit it somehow and I missed it? I know I'm not exactly sitting at the cool kids table here and I miss a lot of stuff, but I try to keep up as much as I can. Just wondering.

I've heard that Ellen is not like her public persona and that she generally treats non-celebs like shit. But…who knows. I have noticed, however, that Portia has been looking WAY off during appearances w/Ellen over the past year or so. Very glassy-eyed and fake frozen expressions.

I think they're probably both a-holes: one due to personality, the other b/c of drug addiction.

If she recorded them in California she broke the law, unless they were in public with no expectation of privacy.

I never really liked Ellen but I started to dislike her when she dragged some rescue group through the mud because she adopted a dog from them and SIGNED A CONTRACT with a clause stating that if she didn't keep the dog, it had to be returned to the rescue. Then she gave it to her housekeeper and the rescue found out and took the dog back and Ellen started this smear campaign, weeping about how the housekeeper's kid loved the dog and was brokenhearted (after like, less than a WEEK?) … apparently Ellen has a habit of adopting dogs and not keeping them.

I haven't taken drugs in years but I have a spypen (lol, I know) on my desk and my iphone always out because I work with a Histrionic Narcissist. She now knows about it so she controls herself.

I agree Portia should just leave but its not that easy emotionally. Ellen was probably great in the beginning and turned controlling (as has been pointed on here before) and Portia stays because she wants things to be back they way they were.

I hate all the bad gossip that has trickled in about Ellen over the years, namely that she is a hyper-jealous control freak, especially in regards to Portia. They way I've read the stories is that everything was fine and great in the beginning. Portia was recovering from her ED and Ellen wooed her like crazy. But gradually Ellen exerted more and more control over Portia's life and career. Portia felt her world shrinking tinier and tinier. She stopped taking acting jobs, stopped seeing friends, stopped doing anything that might incite Ellen's jealousy. Ellen was constantly afraid someone would steal the 15-years-younger Portia away from her. Conversely, Portia was afraid she was getting too old for Ellen and started getting plastic surgery, botox, fillers, etc. to maintain a youthful look. After fighting with Portia Ellen redoubles her efforts to hold on to her with lavish gifts and extravagant spending but to Portia it's become like a gilded cage. She started drinking more and more and her ED is always right there, waiting to take over. My understanding is that the rehab is for alcohol and ED. I really, REALLY hope that all this bad stuff is not true because I really like them both and really want them to be well and be happy in their relationship.

Exactly. That hooker/girlfriend to the old basketball team owner recorded him ILLEGALLY yet she wasn't prosecuted, nobody even criticized her for doing it (while she was basically on his payroll) … and in fact the NBA was happy to use that illegally-obtained recording to strip his team from him. Maybe he deserved it but … nobody had clean hands in that one.

@prunella.. v stiviano recorded him legally and that's why they didn't sue her.. donald sterling wanted her to record their conversations b/c he was having memory problems and someone else was in the room too.. it was a LEGAL RECORDING PER CA

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